Pía

given name · Latin script

Meaning: piha (bird)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pía is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 459(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 2K
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 4.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

23,359 people

Sources
221 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pia in CL Chile, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

piha (bird)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pía counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pía is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark—23,3591 in 25123K——
SE Sweden—23,1011 in 44223KPia41
FI Finland#38012,1481 in 45914KPia20
CL Chile#236≈9,000 est.≈1 in 2K242Pia116
PH Philippines—≈8,700 est.≈1 in 13K—Pia80
NO Norway—3,7541 in 1.5K11KPia25
SI Slovenia—2,3211 in 9062.3K—8
UY Uruguay#154≈750 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Pia41

23,359 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pía is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Pia, Piá, Pià, Pi-A, Pïa

  • Lao given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States

    Also written Pia, Pìa, Piä, Pîa, Pĭa

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Piá, Pià, Pia, Pĩa

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Belgium

    Also written Pia, Pïa, Pîa, Pià, Piá

  • Italian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Pia, Pià, Piá, Piä, Pìà

  • Russian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Ukraine, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Pia, Пиа, Пія, Піа, Pyat

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pía is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Devota

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In jpx-pro, 1 room, place (in a dwelling) 2 place, surroundings

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Icelandic, maidservant

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In roa-leo, foot

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, sink

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Lourdes Alcorta, b. 1951Mae de la Concha García-Mauriño, b. 1954Pía Barros, b. 1956Pía Uribelarrea, b. 1957Pía Guzmán Mena, b. 1957Pía Riggirozzi, b. 1971María Pía Copello, b. 1977Pia León, b. 1986Pia Wurtzbach, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Pía,Hi Pía, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Pía
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2009948—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2008919—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2003889—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2007841—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2010786—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2004737—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2011649—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2013598—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2012598—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2006547—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2002541—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2005531—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pía mean, and where does it come from?
piha (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Pía a male or female name?
Pía is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How do you pronounce Pía?
A machine transcription gives /pia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Pía?
In the etymology graph, Piia is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Pía have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Pía, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pía most common?
Pía is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 251 people carrying it.
How common is the name Pía?
In Denmark, the national register counted 23,359 people named Pía, about 1 in 251 residents.
How common is Pía compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Pía is the 154th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pía” — the 154th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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